I can still see these guys doing this on The Dick Clark Beech-Nut Show, coming down the aisle singing it. What a timeless classic. One thing : this was done in the Fall of '58,. at the time of " Little Star". Wolfsky9
Hiya to all you giving duff detail about this memorable song. The truth is this was released in 1958 and was number 1 in the UK at the time i was born early september. The week ending 22 Aug 1958 it hit number 1 and stayed for 5 weeks.They had several hits in US, but this rock 'n' roll classic was their only hit in the UK.
So sad to hear that they are no longer with us - would have been nice to see them today on a PBS music special, or something like that. It seems though that they had this hit record, and not a strong follow up record - I wonder why not?
The twins hailed from Port Jervis NY.. They first sang at a banquet at Excelsior Engine Company #5, in West End. We loved them both, may they Rest in Peace.
I remember listening to this song on a warm summer night night in Kansas City when I was about nine years old. What a wonderful classic, it really brings back the memories!
Thanks again....for posting all these memories for me and I hope a lot of others...reminds me of Time Hill Gruen Watch Mcmillan St...and a little girl last name starts Mc....I did her wrong...twice (1966).....i am ashamed but my excuse is/was I was just a 19 yr old kid....sorry Mc...you were GOOD for me but at the wrong time.......but GREAT memories...and 1958 introduced Connie Frances also....and "Big Man"...good year for music......thanks again mr. Host......
Unfortunately both brothers died 5 or 6 years ago. The first in a car accident, the second a year later of a heart attack. They were 71 and 72 if I remember correctly.
O M G Love this !!!! I used to sing along with this and felt so proud that I knew all the words !!! with a big Smile on my face ! MEMORIES !!! good ole days .... thanks for it being here !
According to The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits (8th Edition), "When" hit #5 on the Hot 100 chart and #1 on the R&B chart in the summer of 1958. Besides, I remember it like it was yesterday--this is one of my favorite songs. ♫♥♫
Hey, " fbenenati " ! Yea !! L.A./SanFernando Valley was a GREAT place to be a teenager in the 1950's. Turn this one up LOUD in a public place and watch the smiles. KFWB spun these over the years as " KFWB flashbacks ". I know you remember that !
@ElenaRay Absolutely do remember KFWB Flashbacks. I always turn up the volume when I listen to this. YEs, as you said, LA/SFV was a great place to be back in the day........ Thanks for agreeing with me.
The only pair to sing this, I danced my socks off to this song as a teenager and sang right along with the record ( off key by all means ;o) Give me the 50's and 60's music forever, What a great time to be a teen!
@Imayorkiemom Regarding the Kalin Twins, my buddy's sister was friends with them in 1959 and I would see them talking to her in ther parent's driveway in Culver City. She sued Howard Huges an received 100k for being a 'no show". I was 12 at the time and it was GREAT then.
I first heard this on KOFY radio while growing up the San Francisco Bay area during the 1980s. This song, along with others from the era, made me a devotee of 50s rock and roll music, and I haven't looked back since.
Thank you for sharing!!! My dad lost all of his 45's and now I have been able to listen to the 4 he had from the Kalin Twins. THANK YOU!!! Some of my best memories were listening to those songs!!!
Thank you for sharing!!! My dad lost all of his 45's and now I have been able to listen to the 4 he had from the Kalin Twins. THANK YOU!!! Some of my best memories were listening to those songs!!!
RIP, Hal and Herbie. What a great hit. Me and my twin brother used to listen to this all the time as 12 year olds back in LA,Calif on "KFWB, Channel 98" (980) AM.
I got to say one thing, this is one catchy song. my generations is not into this music but music back then was full of life, not full of computer stuff... thats why this will all ways be the true talent
I hadn't heard this song since I was about 9 years old I had forgotten all about ever having heard it but after listening it all flooded back playing in the street in NY and hearing teenagers drive by radios blasting or from the jukebox at the corner soda fountain, or the radio playing in my Mom's kitchen when and whereever but I remember
Sorry...have not had time to read all the comments, but this sure sounds like music! I mean...this was way back when we still had music (Brenda Lee, The Crests, Bobby Helms, Brook Benton...you know the others... instead of noise...just my humble opinion...oh, and let's not forget 'transistor radios'...and as I recall, we held each other when we danced...songs ended in about three minutes...and singers, bands, groups, and audiences dressed nicely...Tunesmith
@JustAGuyNamedSteve1 I know what you mean friend. I was just a little guy but I remember these records being played in my house . I had 4 older brothers so these sweet memories were always playing. What a wonderful time that was.
Hailing from Port Jervis is the kalin twins imagine your self walking down to the campbell Hall train depot and you are going to catch a southbound Erie train to Jersey City and you are holding your girl so tight and you never want to leave Campbell Hall because thats where you're baby is. Unfornatley you get on your train and go back to Jersey City knowing you see her again
Thanks for posting this song. This is one of my all time hits. When I would hear this song playing on the car radio, I had to listen to it till the end. I could not turn off the radio in the middle of it. I considered it a sin to do so. I REALLY love this song.
Agree w/ you, mightyrover76. I remember this being my fave tune at the time, summer of '58, my tenth summer. Second favorite that summer was My True Love by Jack Scott, followed by Little Star, by the Elegants. That's if I don't mention the Ponitails' Born Too Late...
@banksprogheim Agree with both of you about 1958. I am glad to hear it confirmed. I recall when I was eleven, in 1958, listening to this during the summer that year. What a great song. as were the others that you mentioned. Fun to also watch the video of the Kallins doing it at a concert in 1989.
you can count on this being made in 1959. I grew up in Georgetown, DC. Tehy were "DC boys"...I am quite positive that they later went work for the DC police as 'beat cops'. John O.
This is the first record I ever bought, I was 11! I didn't know anyone else even remembered or heard of this song, until I record Eric Clapton's autobiography. It's the first record he ever bought, too! Haven't heard it for I don't know how many years, till I just found it on youtube. If you can think of it, it's on youtube!
This is the first Rock n Roll song I remember I was In the USA one year form Merry Ole England Anyone something older ??? Lind Thanks for your response
when will i fall in love for the first time? when will i find the girls of my dreams? when will i get married? i guess all these are in about 10 years time or so because im only a little 13 year old
@kaspi47 Tout à fait je l'écoute toujours avec plaisir et il me fait vibrer et me ramène à ma jeunesse bien qu'à cette époque je n'avais que 3 ans mais je suis de 56 donc époque yéyé!
@SuperLoulala Pareil que toi même si je suis de 53 ! Ce qui est surprenant est que j'ai écouté "When" pour la 1ere fois il y a environ 30 ans, j'ai demandé au disquaire ms il n'avait ps ce titre et je ne connaissais pas leur nom. Surprise, en lisant un Stephen King (je sais plus lequel) il cite les Kalin Twins . Bingo !! Je l'ai maintenant en CD. Il existe une reprise de Daniel Gérard "Viens"ds les années 60 ps mal ms ca vaut pas l'original !! A+
This is another memorable r&r hit from 1959 that i haven't forgotten. It dose help to have the internet as radio dosen't give us all wahat we want to hear and even so you may have to wait, notelling when they'll play it unless you have all request radio & then their may be a problem keeping up with the listeners demand. Wegot oldies fm on here at work, 5 days a week and i hear many of the same songs from day to day...I Kidd You Not!!!& they don't play When or any doowop..but many fm stations.
For what it's worth, this was no. 1 in the British charts on the day I was born. I've known that for a long time from the book "Guiness Book of British Hit Singles". But this is the first time I've actually heard it!!!!!!!!
Why can't musicians make songs like this one anymore? Why must everything be so vulgar, obscene, or depressing? This is such a happy song. Guess I'm out of date, which is sad since I'm not old!
The ultimate sax solo. The essence of first-wave rock. Under the Jerome Avenue elevated next the Kingsbridge Armory, summer of 1958, singing to the echos--gone, alas, like our youth, too soon.
Oh my!!! My grandpa sang this to me. lol LOVE this! I recently found a home movie of him sing this to me, and us dancing. In my BIG SHORT twirly dress. lol White Mary Janes. THANK YOU!!!!!
Summer of 1958 this was on the radio during a family fishing trip to Wisconsin. They wore it out. A hugely popular song that year. I wondered why these guys didn't record another such song.
when songs came like this on the record market, the music was still done with heart and soul, without the commerce was the big purpose - completely in contrast to today's time. On wikipedia there is a quite detailed report on the creating of the Kalin Twins. Unfortunately, both are not any more among us and sing for it by dimensions like Elvis and Buddy Holly in the Rock'n'Roll sky. Songs like \ "When " are simply great over and over again! Thank you for adjusting - 5 stars for it from Germany!
@docpete1968 Who cares when it came out The fact is i have that very same vinyl & it has the date on it ! as do most of the 45" i have from back then .
Anyway records were alway's playing in my house & this is one of the tracks that stuck with me .
@DJBA55 Whoa !!!! I just wanted to know if there was something older 1959 was important to me because I saw the lady in the harbor New York and Freedom no more Soviet Domination like in Czechoslovakia
je n'étais pas née à l'époque ( 1959 ) et pour cause mes parents étaient de jeunes mariés....mais je sais que papa m'invitait souvent à danser sur ce gentil rock 'n'roll ...surtout à l'époque de mon premier bal ( 15 ans en 1982 ) et ma petite jupe vichy et mes ballerines
Ich hoerte es das erste mal in Berlin. Eine unvergessene Musik. Wohne in Blumenau., Brasilien. Herzlichen Dank fuer Ihre Bemuehungen ,Blumenatopf 443.Werner
J'avais 18ans. Que de fois avons nous mis une pièce de monnaie dans le juke - box pour l'écouter. C'était aussi l'époque de «DIANA» de Paul Anka et les filles en étaient folles. Avant il y avait eu aussi un gros truc dans les juke, vers 1954, c'était Rock and roll the clock par Bill Haley and the comets, la première fois qu'on l' a entendu ça été terrible.
I guess I was very lucky to ride in an elevator with the Kalin Twins in 1959 on our Senior Trip to Washington, DC. I have always loved this song. RIP Kalin Twins!!!
Haven't heard this song in forever! It sounds like a blend of pop and rock to me now -- I can imagine Perry Como singing this and it would sound right, too.
I totally agree. Those were the years I was in junior & senior high school. Some of the nicest ballads debuted during those years. I once read that '57-'62: are considered the years of soda shop/sock hop music.
(Now...if only I didn't throw out my circle skirts and crinolines.)
do you remember wearing three or four of those crinolines(we called them cancans) at a time Your skirt stood out about three feet making it awkward when trying to sit down I used to spend every Saturday morning starching those things to make them stand up
I remember my friends agreeing that we had to wear an "absolute minimum of two can-cans when we went dancing" or roller skating. I went to high school with girls who wore layers of can-cans with their hoop skirts. They had a little trouble walking down the aisles between the desks. (Sheesh)
I recall girls in the lavatory or the locker room snickering about "So-n-so" who had V-H-L (visible hoop line). Remember meeting w/friends before a dance & counting to see who wore the most can-cans?
Sadly, the Kalins are gone. Hal passed on August 24, 2005 due to injuries from an auto accident-age 71 Herbie passed on July 21, 2006 due to a heart attack-age 72
The summer of '59 was such a beautiful time in my memory I was getting ready to enter my senior year of high school This song is one of my all-time favorites
Me too! This tune reminds me of my brother's '50 Olds coupe. I used to borrow it in my senior year. I'm still surprised that he would loan me his car.
One of those feel-so-good-to-be-in-love kinds of songs from the late 1950s. I liked this song when it came out when I was around 15 and I still enjoy singing along to it.
Great song and video...much thanks
TheCharles1368 1 week ago
Oy vey! Hal & Herbie Kalin. Those one-hit wonders of the '50s and '60s keep rollin' along...
audrablonde 3 weeks ago
The Kalin Twins, the Everly Brothers, the Beatles.
61dodgelancer 3 weeks ago
Im with you, lets go back to the fifties. Fantastic music!
sera817 3 weeks ago
I can still see these guys doing this on The Dick Clark Beech-Nut Show, coming down the aisle singing it. What a timeless classic. One thing : this was done in the Fall of '58,. at the time of " Little Star". Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 3 weeks ago
@Wolfsky9: "Bingo" on Bandstand!!!
toddwindyhill 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
I am a child of the 70's but I thank God that I had wonderful parents who introduced me at a very young age to this music.
kcope001 3 weeks ago
This was 1958!
JoopCDB 3 weeks ago
Anyone notice how many 50's song sound the same?
This sounds like Runaround Sue...
Nancy99999 3 weeks ago
It was 1958
novaboy49 4 weeks ago
To blumentopf443 oddly when you uploaded this 8/20 i was born in 1959!
angeldovegurl 1 month ago
no soy para nada de esta generción pero me encanta este tema
rox771000 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
An unbelievable one-hit wonder that still stops the listener in his tracks today.
DooWopDoc 1 month ago in playlist DooWopDoc Faves
Hiya to all you giving duff detail about this memorable song. The truth is this was released in 1958 and was number 1 in the UK at the time i was born early september. The week ending 22 Aug 1958 it hit number 1 and stayed for 5 weeks.They had several hits in US, but this rock 'n' roll classic was their only hit in the UK.
smh2409 1 month ago
I was 14 when this came out. Loved it then - and still do.
jcapuani 2 months ago
So sad to hear that they are no longer with us - would have been nice to see them today on a PBS music special, or something like that. It seems though that they had this hit record, and not a strong follow up record - I wonder why not?
JohnnyGNV 2 months ago
who sang this song too?? Thanks for an answer
pascal14783 2 months ago
Actually this was a #5 tune in 1958. Love the song ... was a whole 10 years old back then.
retcwo 2 months ago
The twins hailed from Port Jervis NY.. They first sang at a banquet at Excelsior Engine Company #5, in West End. We loved them both, may they Rest in Peace.
pjny2 2 months ago
I remember listening to this song on a warm summer night night in Kansas City when I was about nine years old. What a wonderful classic, it really brings back the memories!
conradi100 2 months ago
Thanks again....for posting all these memories for me and I hope a lot of others...reminds me of Time Hill Gruen Watch Mcmillan St...and a little girl last name starts Mc....I did her wrong...twice (1966).....i am ashamed but my excuse is/was I was just a 19 yr old kid....sorry Mc...you were GOOD for me but at the wrong time.......but GREAT memories...and 1958 introduced Connie Frances also....and "Big Man"...good year for music......thanks again mr. Host......
butch19571 3 months ago
Bravo, cela fait des années que je recherche ce morceau précisemment.
Mon enfance ! ! !ah ces années 60...merveilleux
swarchi 3 months ago
If we could only turn back time to the 50's, what a wonderful world this would be again with all this great music.
TheBarb0807 4 months ago 4
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TheBarb0807 4 months ago
So nice!
Nickie0016 4 months ago 2
It was 1958 not 1959
davidnettleton 5 months ago
Unfortunately both brothers died 5 or 6 years ago. The first in a car accident, the second a year later of a heart attack. They were 71 and 72 if I remember correctly.
jlmart 5 months ago
One of the first records I ever bought,seems like a hundred years ago now ( well I am 68 )
claggegg 5 months ago
So sweet.. Anyone know what happened to these guys?
JohnGee1977 5 months ago
ONE OF THE FIRST I EVER BOUGHT
kaihen100 5 months ago
O M G Love this !!!! I used to sing along with this and felt so proud that I knew all the words !!! with a big Smile on my face ! MEMORIES !!! good ole days .... thanks for it being here !
mumy1dear 5 months ago
This version is GREAT!!!! Thank you for this!!!!
VinDcator 6 months ago
Lovely old tune. Even now its a total classic from the period.
dinarathirty 6 months ago
terrific, year 1959 , summer, wurlitzer, bogotá square, tremendous hit, seeing the girls go by, Santiago, Chile
ferdinando1945 6 months ago
Nem tudom ki mit szól hozzá, de én még mindig nagyon szeretem őket!!
kiskupec999 6 months ago
Thanks Blumentopf443 for uploading this song! Such an awesome song!
rantle100 6 months ago
At the time they lived in Port Jervis, NY where New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania come together.
georgeB140 7 months ago
According to The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Hits (8th Edition), "When" hit #5 on the Hot 100 chart and #1 on the R&B chart in the summer of 1958. Besides, I remember it like it was yesterday--this is one of my favorite songs. ♫♥♫
TopazDupree 7 months ago
Hey, " fbenenati " ! Yea !! L.A./SanFernando Valley was a GREAT place to be a teenager in the 1950's. Turn this one up LOUD in a public place and watch the smiles. KFWB spun these over the years as " KFWB flashbacks ". I know you remember that !
ElenaRay 7 months ago
@ElenaRay Absolutely do remember KFWB Flashbacks. I always turn up the volume when I listen to this. YEs, as you said, LA/SFV was a great place to be back in the day........ Thanks for agreeing with me.
fbenenati 6 months ago
I loved it when I was ten and now I love it still :*
lidiachrapkowska 7 months ago
This song is number one in United Kindom the August 22, year 1958.
monre1949 8 months ago
The only pair to sing this, I danced my socks off to this song as a teenager and sang right along with the record ( off key by all means ;o) Give me the 50's and 60's music forever, What a great time to be a teen!
Imayorkiemom 9 months ago 25
@Imayorkiemom yes,yes,yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
erus63 4 months ago
@Imayorkiemom Regarding the Kalin Twins, my buddy's sister was friends with them in 1959 and I would see them talking to her in ther parent's driveway in Culver City. She sued Howard Huges an received 100k for being a 'no show". I was 12 at the time and it was GREAT then.
jeffsor47 1 month ago
I first heard this on KOFY radio while growing up the San Francisco Bay area during the 1980s. This song, along with others from the era, made me a devotee of 50s rock and roll music, and I haven't looked back since.
Archangel101576 9 months ago
What great harmony! And the sax... I'm sure glad i can listen to this oldie again.
Smiley9486 9 months ago
great memories , we had the world at our feet , the days when bullets could bounce off us . now , i'm about as tough as a marsh mellow , age sucks .
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Thank you for sharing!!! My dad lost all of his 45's and now I have been able to listen to the 4 he had from the Kalin Twins. THANK YOU!!! Some of my best memories were listening to those songs!!!
huthlives 9 months ago
Thank you for sharing!!! My dad lost all of his 45's and now I have been able to listen to the 4 he had from the Kalin Twins. THANK YOU!!! Some of my best memories were listening to those songs!!!
huthlives 9 months ago 2
RIP, Hal and Herbie. What a great hit. Me and my twin brother used to listen to this all the time as 12 year olds back in LA,Calif on "KFWB, Channel 98" (980) AM.
fbenenati 10 months ago
love this, always have!
rosekraut 10 months ago
Have always loved this.
rosekraut 10 months ago
i beleive it was 1959
MrBlackngold46 10 months ago
Great record hop song and played locally on WOWO, the voice of Westinghouse.....coming to you from the home of the Little Red Barn. LOL
Great music, great days, great memories.
CJ42Gal 10 months ago
Heard it at night on WLS and WCFL from Chicago.
spargel0815 10 months ago
WIL am in St Louis
Ron Lundy would play this over and over and I never got tired of it!
TheLadandLass 10 months ago
Great Rock'n'Roll!!!
xXJulaxXx 10 months ago
Probably should have been compaared to the Everly Brothers. Great music that wasn't really appreciated.
MrZfleming 10 months ago
dwsilver22 Ya left out WMGM 1050
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what a lot of memories...
eudeves 11 months ago
what a lot of memories...
eudeves 11 months ago
I got to say one thing, this is one catchy song. my generations is not into this music but music back then was full of life, not full of computer stuff... thats why this will all ways be the true talent
CSIS25 11 months ago
@dwsilver22 when you got near NY you probably heard WINS or WMCA or WABC
elamite66 11 months ago
I hadn't heard this song since I was about 9 years old I had forgotten all about ever having heard it but after listening it all flooded back playing in the street in NY and hearing teenagers drive by radios blasting or from the jukebox at the corner soda fountain, or the radio playing in my Mom's kitchen when and whereever but I remember
elamite66 11 months ago
I just heard this song for the first time and couldn't help but dance! I love this music, thank you for sharing!
rfivefilms 11 months ago
This was the first song I heard sing by them (more than 40 years ago). Even now I really like. Grazie
FAUSTORICCARDO 1 year ago
Thanks for posting, wasn't sure who the artists were, but hear it on the "oldies" stations.
weatherboi 1 year ago
Milt Grant promoted the gosh darned heck out of these fellers in DC.
howtoplanaparty 1 year ago
Sorry...have not had time to read all the comments, but this sure sounds like music! I mean...this was way back when we still had music (Brenda Lee, The Crests, Bobby Helms, Brook Benton...you know the others... instead of noise...just my humble opinion...oh, and let's not forget 'transistor radios'...and as I recall, we held each other when we danced...songs ended in about three minutes...and singers, bands, groups, and audiences dressed nicely...Tunesmith
tunesmith09 1 year ago
The 4 people who rated this: "dislike " can't remember " When."
Great song, Thanks for sharing.
HoboGus 1 year ago 2
@HoboGus Thats ok, we were there and thats all that matters
crusher1944 1 year ago
I remember this song, When, It was a hit back in 58, I was about 9 yrs old then, Always liked the song.
Thanks for posting
roge69charger 1 year ago
thumps up if 'Singing Detective' lead you there
tyifityif 1 year ago
@tyifityif fail!
spikeman14 1 year ago
Brings back happy memories of my youth, great song , love it , bought it as a new release , oh happy days
TheNigelc8 1 year ago
Kinda scary that I have the same name as these guys. 0_0
Nighelf1 1 year ago
The Kalin Twins hail from Port Jervis New York
Wehategod 1 year ago
@Wehategod No they don't. Why are you lying?
vymmas 1 year ago
I've never quite forgiven Showaddywaddy for what they did to this...
loonyat11 1 year ago
I luv u Paca & Bubba and ur GREATLY missed.Intill the day we meet again ..Not a day that goes by I dont think about u my heart
wickedmommy1 1 year ago
I still get chills when I hear this awesome track. Voices blending like heaven!
Damn I miss those years and the music that made those years so special!
JustAGuyNamedSteve1 1 year ago 2
@JustAGuyNamedSteve1 I know what you mean friend. I was just a little guy but I remember these records being played in my house . I had 4 older brothers so these sweet memories were always playing. What a wonderful time that was.
OldMrMemories 1 year ago 12
A #1 hit for The Kalin Twins on the Rhythm & Blues charts. It was the 38th #1 R&B song to hit #1 in the Rock Era.
mkl62 1 year ago
Vaya, nací ese año... 1959... ¿tal vez desde pequeño escuché este ritmo, que me gusta... no se por qué!!
gino2706 1 year ago
my mom has the 45 of this song
MyMasica 1 year ago
Hailing from Port Jervis is the kalin twins imagine your self walking down to the campbell Hall train depot and you are going to catch a southbound Erie train to Jersey City and you are holding your girl so tight and you never want to leave Campbell Hall because thats where you're baby is. Unfornatley you get on your train and go back to Jersey City knowing you see her again
'
Wehategod 1 year ago
una delle più belle canzoni del 900
bocciroberto616 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this song. This is one of my all time hits. When I would hear this song playing on the car radio, I had to listen to it till the end. I could not turn off the radio in the middle of it. I considered it a sin to do so. I REALLY love this song.
1arodela 1 year ago 2
still have this 45
brownindian17 1 year ago
Agree w/ you, mightyrover76. I remember this being my fave tune at the time, summer of '58, my tenth summer. Second favorite that summer was My True Love by Jack Scott, followed by Little Star, by the Elegants. That's if I don't mention the Ponitails' Born Too Late...
banksprogheim 1 year ago
@banksprogheim Agree with both of you about 1958. I am glad to hear it confirmed. I recall when I was eleven, in 1958, listening to this during the summer that year. What a great song. as were the others that you mentioned. Fun to also watch the video of the Kallins doing it at a concert in 1989.
fbenenati 1 year ago
according to my records this was No 1 in 1958 from Aug 22nd, not as titled 1959 lol
mightyrover76 1 year ago
I have always loved this song and it came out when I was 17!
soniaman1 1 year ago
i heard this june 24th on 50s on 5 and now i finaly found it
dingdongditch98 1 year ago
WOW! This one is one of the first songs I ever loved as a pre-teen! Now I know why! Sax and harmony was the way back then...
VinDcator 1 year ago 4
Yes, they are from Port Jervis, N.Y., and this reached No. 5 on the Billboard charts in the summer of 1958. Great song!
Andymanpr 1 year ago
thank you up^^
hyoutantugino1 1 year ago
First record i purchased on a 78 rpm
awc192000 1 year ago
A Top 5 hit for The Kalin Twins in the summer of 1958.
mkl62 1 year ago
i like this song Thanks
hellcat54 1 year ago
you can count on this being made in 1959. I grew up in Georgetown, DC. Tehy were "DC boys"...I am quite positive that they later went work for the DC police as 'beat cops'. John O.
jondrick 1 year ago
Delightful oldie that carries that typical beat of the late 50's - thanking you for uploading it. Clicked "like" garnering 182 points.
felixbautista 1 year ago
I remember when KRTH 101 FM in Los Angeles Played this great song.
KRLA KWIZ Even KWOW
Man L.A. Needs these radio stations back.
TL250Rider 1 year ago
@TL250Rider Boy, you're not kidding. KRTH plays NO real oldies anymore. They offer an oldies (50's) on hi-def radio, but you have to pay. :P
Highland804 1 year ago
@TL250Rider KRTH not what it used to be. Check out KCSN Friday night around nine p.m.
titostacos 1 year ago
I love this song, I was 12 when it came out and I still remember it, Jr. High School!
Irisheyes490 1 year ago
This is the first record I ever bought, I was 11! I didn't know anyone else even remembered or heard of this song, until I record Eric Clapton's autobiography. It's the first record he ever bought, too! Haven't heard it for I don't know how many years, till I just found it on youtube. If you can think of it, it's on youtube!
lhcarter 1 year ago
This is the first Rock n Roll song I remember I was In the USA one year form Merry Ole England Anyone something older ??? Lind Thanks for your response
docpete1968 1 year ago
where did this world go wrong,wish they still made tunes like this now,classic,peace and love peeps.
slippymaggot 1 year ago
Was this group from Port Jervis, NY?
ipennilane13 1 year ago
this song sounds familiar, my dad is ALWAYS playing old music :)
bebebaaby 1 year ago
when will i fall in love for the first time? when will i find the girls of my dreams? when will i get married? i guess all these are in about 10 years time or so because im only a little 13 year old
Michaelwaters123 1 year ago
This was music of the finest. Thanks a lot.
gerryotta 1 year ago
hey lorenzolait! Was that the Bob's on Van Nuys Bl or Sherman Wy?
ElenaRay 1 year ago
Le rythme de ce titre est fabuleux ! Et plus de 50 ans après il n'a pas pris de rides !!
kaspi47 1 year ago
@kaspi47 Tout à fait je l'écoute toujours avec plaisir et il me fait vibrer et me ramène à ma jeunesse bien qu'à cette époque je n'avais que 3 ans mais je suis de 56 donc époque yéyé!
SuperLoulala 1 year ago
@SuperLoulala Pareil que toi même si je suis de 53 ! Ce qui est surprenant est que j'ai écouté "When" pour la 1ere fois il y a environ 30 ans, j'ai demandé au disquaire ms il n'avait ps ce titre et je ne connaissais pas leur nom. Surprise, en lisant un Stephen King (je sais plus lequel) il cite les Kalin Twins . Bingo !! Je l'ai maintenant en CD. Il existe une reprise de Daniel Gérard "Viens"ds les années 60 ps mal ms ca vaut pas l'original !! A+
kaspi47 1 year ago
This is another memorable r&r hit from 1959 that i haven't forgotten. It dose help to have the internet as radio dosen't give us all wahat we want to hear and even so you may have to wait, notelling when they'll play it unless you have all request radio & then their may be a problem keeping up with the listeners demand. Wegot oldies fm on here at work, 5 days a week and i hear many of the same songs from day to day...I Kidd You Not!!!& they don't play When or any doowop..but many fm stations.
Ezdduf4kuZ 1 year ago
For what it's worth, this was no. 1 in the British charts on the day I was born. I've known that for a long time from the book "Guiness Book of British Hit Singles". But this is the first time I've actually heard it!!!!!!!!
UKRichardHK 1 year ago 2
elle plus tot super cette chanson ^^
gros bisous
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PATRICIAETGREGDU31 1 year ago
Why can't musicians make songs like this one anymore? Why must everything be so vulgar, obscene, or depressing? This is such a happy song. Guess I'm out of date, which is sad since I'm not old!
Archangel101576 1 year ago 4
@Archangel101576 You are not out of date evry one else is out of Sync
01RickyMorr 1 year ago 2
I love this song, too!
tabacki1 1 year ago
50er 1959 music lol
RMCFShaunay1991 1 year ago
The ultimate sax solo. The essence of first-wave rock. Under the Jerome Avenue elevated next the Kingsbridge Armory, summer of 1958, singing to the echos--gone, alas, like our youth, too soon.
fongchaynun 2 years ago 11
this is the first record I ever bought! I was 9 years old.....
Hyemoonie 2 years ago 4
Oh my!!! My grandpa sang this to me. lol LOVE this! I recently found a home movie of him sing this to me, and us dancing. In my BIG SHORT twirly dress. lol White Mary Janes. THANK YOU!!!!!
msdanielle888 2 years ago 5
God! What a pure memory of my youth.
One hit or not, they delivered on this song in big big rock and roll way!
JustAGuyNamedSteve1 2 years ago 5
Finally Yeeehaaa Thx
BigDuckKetterer 2 years ago
Summer of 1958 this was on the radio during a family fishing trip to Wisconsin. They wore it out. A hugely popular song that year. I wondered why these guys didn't record another such song.
Purrturbed 2 years ago
Great song by these guys!! this was a huge hit here in Louisville Ky. Herbie and Harold isn't it??
ukcatfan36 2 years ago
they seem way to young to have passed away.... how did that happen? does anyone have info on that?
scarypowers 2 years ago
One from injuries sustained in auto accident, other a year later from a heart attack.
fbenenati 2 years ago
when songs came like this on the record market, the music was still done with heart and soul, without the commerce was the big purpose - completely in contrast to today's time. On wikipedia there is a quite detailed report on the creating of the Kalin Twins. Unfortunately, both are not any more among us and sing for it by dimensions like Elvis and Buddy Holly in the Rock'n'Roll sky. Songs like \ "When " are simply great over and over again! Thank you for adjusting - 5 stars for it from Germany!
musicfreak1967 2 years ago
love this track remember mum use to play it all the time back in 1969.
i have it now :0)
thanks.
DJBA55 2 years ago 24
@DJBA55 The fact is the song came out in 1959 maybe your mom listened to it then
docpete1968 1 year ago
@docpete1968 Who cares when it came out The fact is i have that very same vinyl & it has the date on it ! as do most of the 45" i have from back then .
Anyway records were alway's playing in my house & this is one of the tracks that stuck with me .
A great passtime i think dont you?
DJBA55 1 year ago
@DJBA55 Whoa !!!! I just wanted to know if there was something older 1959 was important to me because I saw the lady in the harbor New York and Freedom no more Soviet Domination like in Czechoslovakia
docpete1968 1 year ago
je n'étais pas née à l'époque ( 1959 ) et pour cause mes parents étaient de jeunes mariés....mais je sais que papa m'invitait souvent à danser sur ce gentil rock 'n'roll ...surtout à l'époque de mon premier bal ( 15 ans en 1982 ) et ma petite jupe vichy et mes ballerines
fanchette122 2 years ago 4
Summer, 1958, this song was huge in Denver, on KOSI, " The Big 1630 in Denver"!! Those were the days! Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 2 years ago 11
@Wolfsky9
My parents are from Pueblo, married there in 1960. They still love this music.
beowulven 1 year ago
Ich hoerte es das erste mal in Berlin. Eine unvergessene Musik. Wohne in Blumenau., Brasilien. Herzlichen Dank fuer Ihre Bemuehungen ,Blumenatopf 443.Werner
wernerfrisio 2 years ago 3
J'avais 18ans. Que de fois avons nous mis une pièce de monnaie dans le juke - box pour l'écouter. C'était aussi l'époque de «DIANA» de Paul Anka et les filles en étaient folles. Avant il y avait eu aussi un gros truc dans les juke, vers 1954, c'était Rock and roll the clock par Bill Haley and the comets, la première fois qu'on l' a entendu ça été terrible.
mercattore 2 years ago 3
I used to Bop to this in 1998. Along with Danny and Juniors.
Grifiki 2 years ago 2
Don't you mean 1958?
davidnettleton 2 years ago
I guess I was very lucky to ride in an elevator with the Kalin Twins in 1959 on our Senior Trip to Washington, DC. I have always loved this song. RIP Kalin Twins!!!
Southernfriedman 2 years ago 5
cette chanson a déjà 50 balais....mince alors elle n'a pas pris une ride
Je l'adore ...le rock des noces à papa et maman mariés le 14 mars 1959
Fanchette
fanchette122 2 years ago
Haven't heard this song in forever! It sounds like a blend of pop and rock to me now -- I can imagine Perry Como singing this and it would sound right, too.
liz1060 2 years ago
First time I've heard this since riding the bus to junior high some 50 years ago. (Or more!)
fairlyfast1 2 years ago 2
the years 57-58-59-60-61-62 were the best years for rock 'n roll Some of the greatest music came out in those years
navy3491 2 years ago 7
I totally agree. Those were the years I was in junior & senior high school. Some of the nicest ballads debuted during those years. I once read that '57-'62: are considered the years of soda shop/sock hop music.
(Now...if only I didn't throw out my circle skirts and crinolines.)
brownies4you 2 years ago 4
do you remember wearing three or four of those crinolines(we called them cancans) at a time Your skirt stood out about three feet making it awkward when trying to sit down I used to spend every Saturday morning starching those things to make them stand up
navy3491 2 years ago
I remember my friends agreeing that we had to wear an "absolute minimum of two can-cans when we went dancing" or roller skating. I went to high school with girls who wore layers of can-cans with their hoop skirts. They had a little trouble walking down the aisles between the desks. (Sheesh)
I recall girls in the lavatory or the locker room snickering about "So-n-so" who had V-H-L (visible hoop line). Remember meeting w/friends before a dance & counting to see who wore the most can-cans?
brownies4you 2 years ago
I remember putting this giant rubber band around my waist to hold mine up when I was in 6th grade!
liz1060 2 years ago
That is a GREAT era, but I find music has
always been good, when you are in love.
fntime 2 years ago 3
That was the golden era but I would extend it a couple years further just before the Beatle came on scene.
MetTechII 2 years ago 5
Sadly, the Kalins are gone. Hal passed on August 24, 2005 due to injuries from an auto accident-age 71 Herbie passed on July 21, 2006 due to a heart attack-age 72
navy3491 2 years ago
Cute song by cute twin brothers! Hehe...;-)
oldiesfan55 2 years ago
OMG! gr8 song-- I was only 10 but LOVED it!! and still do..
tiarasista 2 years ago
The summer of '59 was such a beautiful time in my memory I was getting ready to enter my senior year of high school This song is one of my all-time favorites
navy3491 2 years ago
Me too! This tune reminds me of my brother's '50 Olds coupe. I used to borrow it in my senior year. I'm still surprised that he would loan me his car.
dak1014 2 years ago 2
I lost my virginity when this came out, I was 13! Shocking eh? A female too...
insomnia320 2 years ago
WOW, thanks for this oldie, but goodie!!!!!!! Love it!!!!
gabrielle931 2 years ago 3
A cousin of mine borrowed this 45rpm and I never saw it again! Thanks for this tune. Still love that snappin'.
1949kato 2 years ago 4
This was from 1958 I'm sure.
Georgiahulse 2 years ago
Yes it was, "When" - (1958) - UK Number One - U.S. Number Five
TaxiRED 2 years ago
I'm from Santiago de Chile and remember being a boy and love this song.. We used to dance it again and again... Gorgeous memories...
nelsonvargascatalan 2 years ago
Rock and Roll.. "The Dance"
Grifiki 2 years ago
HAHAH MY real name is Kalin XD what the...
wizfull 2 years ago
I loved this when I was a very young teenager..I had the 45 record..Don't even know if I still have it...
windmill1947 2 years ago 2
dub dub, bubi du dup
Ohrwurm...
17101986tine 2 years ago
mmm the date is wrong it was from 1958 and it was one of the first 6 singles I bought all at once
ebuland 2 years ago 3
What were the other 5 singles??
LosAngeleno1959 2 years ago
Such a beautiful song
martimmello 2 years ago 25
@martimmello the good old '60s
whatevericantfindone 1 year ago 3
Roseann..179 pl..r u there..1958..jim
williewillnick 2 years ago
One of those feel-so-good-to-be-in-love kinds of songs from the late 1950s. I liked this song when it came out when I was around 15 and I still enjoy singing along to it.
brownies4you 2 years ago 9